Jon Stewart sounds smart even when he's not being a smart ass. In a surprisingly serious interview with Rolling Stone, "The Daily Show" anchor talks about his disappointment with President Obama, the Democrats' gutless bumbling of the debt-ceiling debate and why CNN reminds him of a plate of "grits without salt." When the publication's interviewer Eric Bates notes that "a lot of people wish" the President would "take the gloves off a little more," Stewart responds that Obama's "problem is not his lack of passion. It's his lack of direction. "I still don't know what he believes in," he says. Stewart, 48, who's become one of the sharpest political and social observers in any medium since taking over the "Daily Show" in 1999, tells Bates: "Maybe that's my biggest issue with [Obama]: I'm not sure what he truly thinks is the right path, other than that he believes the wealthy should pay a little bit more of their fair share." Stewart says he's sure the President is "pleased with what he's done," but adds: "I would have preferred to see something a little more transformative." He also calls Obama's health-care plan a "2,000-page clusterf-k." Asked to assess another cluster-you-know-what - the debt-ceiling debate - Stewart observes: "You can blame the intransigence of Tea Party Republicans all you want, but Democrats had a chance to pass a budget before they lost the midterm election.

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